87 m. ago ‘We’re told to be polite and small and dainty. But that’s not me!’: Megan Stalter on starring in Lena Dunham’s new romcom, Too Much

Her kooky online skits brought her viral fame and a breakout role in HBO’s Hacks. Then Lena Dunham came calling with the job of a lifetime. Is the actor ready to take centre stage?When Lena Dunham messaged, Megan Stalter lost it. “Like d’uhh,” Stalter is explaining – delighting, really. “Who wouldn’t? I was at home: this really bad apartment in Laurel Canyon [in the Hollywood Hills]. The area is haunted, and it was actually a really scary building, and nothing ever got fixed because apparently in the lease I signed they didn’t have to repair anything! I don’t actually live there now ” Stalter, 34, has a tendency to wander off on tangents. So Dunham?“OK yes, so we were just about to start filming Hacks again.” The wildly popular, 48-times-Emmy-nominated HBO comedy in which Stalter plays nepo-baby Kayla, a chaotic and kind-hearted talent agent, her total-commitment-to-the-bit characterisation making her a breakout star. “And there Lena was in my DMs.” Stalter opene...

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95 m. ago England Women told to face Euro 2025 reality and rediscover 'untouchable' selves

England's Euro 2025 campaign got off to a painful start with defeat against France but the Lionesses' players have outlined how they can bounce back on Wednesday

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2 h. ago Lewis Hamilton got told Toto Wolff was 'fed up' with him before pulling the exit cord

Toto Wolff and Lewis Hamilton were successful at Mercedes, but in the final years of their time together, one former F1 figure thinks the Austrian was growing tired of the Brit

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2 h. ago Secrets about Prince William and Kate Middleton's St Andrews love story revealed as royal author says the future Princess of Wales was 'very shy'

Vice Chancellor Brian Lang told the audience in 2005 that St Andrews prides itself on being 'Britain's top matchmaking university' and that one in ten students would go on to marry.

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3 h. ago Deadly heatwaves are the new reality – we need to transform the UK's cities and towns to survive them | Hannah Martin

While we work towards net zero, we also need to adapt. And we can pay for cooling measures like splash pads and trees by taxing the worst pollutersThere’s a lot to be anxious about as a new parent, let alone in a heatwave when the thermometer in your one-year-old daughter’s room is reading 26C. That’s six degrees higher than the upper limit of the recommended temperature for a child’s room. After scrolling my phone for advice on how to cool her room, I couldn’t help waking up every few hours to check she was OK on the baby monitor.In the UK, we are unprepared at every level for the extreme weather caused by climate breakdown. Whether it’s unbearably hot buildings in the summer, our damp and cold homes (some of the leakiest in Europe) filled with mould in the winter, our unprotected towns built on flood plains, or our unfit-for-purpose train tracks that get shut down at the slightest weather warning, the climate crisis is already wreaking havoc on public and private infrastructure – ...

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3 h. ago 'I was banned from going on holiday after developing this condition'

EXCLUSIVE: Kirsty Robertson was in so much turmoil over her health condition that she couldn't risk going on holiday and was told by her GP to completely avoid sun exposure

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5 h. ago Books of the Month: What to read this July, from a dark satire on war journalism to a memoir told in verse

Martin Chilton shares his July reading highlights

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5 h. ago Tony Bloom's Hearts endgame is to win the Premiership as Celtic and Rangers told when they should be 'worried'

An ally to the Brighton owners has revealed the long-game after his Tynecastle investment

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6 h. ago Kevin Nunn has spent 20 years in prison for a horrifying murder. Was he wrongly convicted?

In a case full of surprising scenarios, the time and place of the murder were never established, and Nunn was found guilty despite a lack of forensic evidence. He is still maintaining his innocence, but will he ever be freed?After the murder of his ex-girlfriend Dawn Walker, in 2005, Kevin Nunn insists he told Suffolk police everything. Of course he did, he says – he was desperate to help them track down her killer. He explained how they had split up two days before she was found, how he had gone to her home after she had left a distraught voicemail on his phone and not turned up to work, how he had let himself in with a key she didn’t know he had, and how he went looking for her along their favourite walking routes by the River Lark, north of Bury St Edmunds. He then handed over the pair of boots he had worn when searching for her.The body of Walker, 37, was discovered close to where Nunn said he had looked for her. Not surprisingly, his footprints were also found. Six weeks after ...

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9 h. ago Trustee who used sermon to say Muslims would 'kill Jews' six days after October 7 attacks is disqualified

Harun Abdur Rashid Holmes told the sermon 'the hour will not begin until the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims will kill them until a Jew hides behind a rock or a tree'.

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10 h. ago ALEXANDRA SHULMAN'S NOTEBOOK: I'm battling a terrible addiction

I became aware of this condition only the other morning when I woke up and realised that with no DHL, Evri or Amazon delivery scheduled for that day I felt bereft. Something was missing.

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10 h. ago I was told by my midwife that my baby and I were going to die...then I woke up in the delivery room alone

'You and your baby are going to die' are the chilling last words a Sydney mum heard before she was put to sleep and woke up alone in a hospital.

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11 h. ago Infected blood scandal victims will get paid quicker, minister promises

Cabinet Office Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds has told officials to "do what is necessary to remove barriers and speed up payments."

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13 h. ago Noel Gallagher reveals real reason for Oasis reunion during emotional second night in Cardiff

Noel Gallagher has told the crowd inside Cardiff’s Principality Stadium just who was the reason behind him finally ending his feud with brother Liam Gallagher and getting Oasis back together

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13 h. ago Baltimore fires France to opening win against England to end Wiegman’s Euro record

The folded bodies of the players in white shirts at the close told the story. England were lacklustre and they are down, but they are not out. The Lionesses kicked off their European title defence with a 2-1 defeat by an impressive France team, delivering Sarina Wiegman’s first major tournament defeat outside of a final.After a promising and pressing start fell away, Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Sandy Baltimore delivered for a resurgent France, Keira Walsh’s late strike from a corner reducing the reigning European champions’ blushes. A late charge was not enough and England have a lot of work to do to escape the tournament’s group of death. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago US hit with mass shootings and fatal accidents on Fourth of July holiday

Violence and shootings tend to surge during the summer, especially on one of the deadliest days of the yearFriday’s US Independence Day holiday was marked by multiple shootings across the US, including one in Indianapolis that left at least two dead and five wounded as a police chief voiced frustration over the latest acts of violence in his city.Indianapolis metropolitan police chief Chris Bailey told reporters early Saturday morning that the Fourth of July mayhem a day earlier was “completely unacceptable and unnecessary” – and that parents and guardians needed to better control their children. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Colorado woman charged with murder in 16 years old case involving newborn who was found in a dumpster

Angela Onduto, 46, of Colorado, has been charged with the 2009 murder of her newborn daughter, whom police named Matea Esperanza, after the baby was found in a San Francisco Bay Area dumpster.

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15 h. ago Alleged organiser of shooting of Colombian senator caught by police

Elder José Arteaga Hernández in custody after the non-fatal attack on Miguel Uribe Turbay in a Bogotá park in JuneThe alleged mastermind behind the shooting of a conservative Colombian senator and presidential candidate has been taken into custody, almost a month after the attack, law enforcement authorities have said.Elder José Arteaga Hernández, alias “Chipi” or “Costeño”, was arrested in the north-western part of the capital, Bogotá, on Saturday, national police director Maj Gen Carlos Fernando Triana told reporters. Authorities had previously accused him and other suspects of being near the Bogotá park where Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot on 7 June. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Hailey Bieber's dad Stephen Baldwin reacts to her selling Rhode for $1 billion after rift with her and Justin

Stephen Baldwin is proud of his daughter Hailey Bieber , 28, for selling Rhode to e.l.f. Beauty for $1 billion. 'It took her three years,' the actor told Adam Carolla.

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18 h. ago Carnage breaks out at Portland ICE detention center as woke crowd tries to storm holding cells

Tear gas, flares and mass arrests rocked Portland, Oregon as protesters stormed an ICE detention center just hours after Trump signed his sweeping immigration bill into law.

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